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When Susan Bowen, 30, was rushed to the hospital after lapsing into a coma in her San Jose, Calif., home, doctors suspected a heart attack or a stroke...
What's more, Bowen emphasizes, this is the time when the bonds are most closely formed between student and teacher. "We do everything with them--sleep, eat and work," she says. "After six weeks of living with someone, you get to know their habits...
...part, Bowen is rather cautions about making grand claims for the program . "We are more of a support system than anything else, like a stepping stone from high school to college which gives the students the incentive they need to work," she says...
...Bowen cites a core staff which has been together for over eight years as the primary reason the Harvard program works so successfully. Indeed, many of the former students find themselves returning to Upward Bound to either teach or tutor; Bowen herself was a student and then a tutor with the program...
...Bowen says that after three years of working with the kids, the emotional attachment often becomes stronger than academic need, and that the administrators often become like surrogate mothers and fathers for the students...